Independence Well-meaning people in England found it difficult to understand the intensity of feeling in America. Britain had piled up a huge debt in driving France from America. Landowners were paying in taxes no less than twenty per cent of their incomes from land. The people who had chiefly benefited by the humiliation of France…
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Arthur Campbell to George Washington on Indians and the British
Holstein River Octo. 26th 1781 Sir The southern Indians and particularly the Cherokees, have at different periods in the present contest, been an object of instrumentality with the British Agents for the subjugation of America—By means of the opposition of arms, and at times of negociation we have hitherto in a great measure frustrated their…
Simcoe’s Raid
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. Another account of this enterprise is given by an officer who belonged to Simcoe’s party, as follows:—”Twenty-two men, of the Buck’s light dragoons, forty-six of the ranger hussars, and a few others as guides, landed at Perth Amboy on…
Simcoe’s Enterprise in New Jersey
From Diary of the American Revolution, Vol II. Compiled by Frank Moore and published in 1859. October 27.—Yesterday morning, about two o’clock, the Queen’s rangers, with the cavalry belonging to that regiment, and ten light horse under the command of Captain Stewart, who are stationed on Staten Island, landed at Amboy, in Jersey, and proceeded…
Thomas Jefferson to John Randolph
Philadelphia, November 29, 1775. Dear Sir, I am to give you the melancholy intelligence of the death of our most worthy Speaker, which happened here on the 22nd of the last month. He was struck with an apoplexy, and expired within five hours. I have it in my power to acquaint you that the success…